Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Able Frank Murphy likes his job in the Philippines, announced before departing for the U. S. two months ago that he hoped and expected to return. But his friends know that he has had his eye on Michigan's Governorship for a long time, that at 43 his political ambitions are virtually boundless. Having stayed long enough to achieve a notable reputation for tact and efficiency, the eleventh and last Governor General of the Philippines may have concluded that the post might prove for him the same kind of stepping stone which it was for the eighth. Henry Lewis...
...British Minister to Addis Ababa, heroic Sir Sidney Barton, was in London last week on a "leave" from which His Excellency is most unlikely to return to Ethiopia. He was bidden to Buckingham Palace and decorated by His Majesty with the Order of Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire for having withstood a hot siege of the British Legation by Ethiopians who proved themselves savages of the most ferocious type as soon as their Emperor fled his country (TIME...
...miles of Times Square, another of $500 for the pilot at the meet who flies highest. Two years ago Pilot du Pont missed the $3,000 prize by five miles. Last week, in his new German sail plane, he set a world's record for distance and return to point of de parture, with a 37-mi. round trip to Watkins Glen...
...Return of Sophie Lang (Paramount) is a shipboard anecdote of a thief's (Gertrude Michael) redemption. Force opposing: Sir Guy Standing as Max Bernard, a scoundrel trying to compel Miss Lang to resume the racket she faked death to desert. Force assisting: Ray Milland, once of the late George V's palace guards, as Jimmy Dawson, a reporter so infatuated that he was in the habit of leaving bouquets on the supposed grave of Miss Lang inscribed "in memory of glamour." Plot development consists mostly of the pastime, so popular at Paramount this year, of passing stolen jewelry...
Having decided to form a coop, a group of people charter an association, buy at least one share of stock each to provide capital. Membership is open to all. Each member has one vote irrespective of the number of shares owned, and he may not vote by proxy. Return on his stock, which usually costs from $5 to $25 per share, is limited usually to 5% or 6%. The store sells at prevailing prices, strictly for cash. A record of each member's purchases is kept, sometimes in a little book like a bankbook carried by the member...